Broker - Owner
Trademark Real Estate Group
Broker Owner
January 2006 – Present
Trademark Real Estate Group, Inc., (TREG) is solely owned and operated by Mr. White. Trademark Real Estate Group was formed in 2006 and has grown into an extensive real estate investment firm where Mr. White provides well over 25 years of real estate and lending experience to his clients. TREG counsels consumers on the uses of primary and secondary (investment) homeownership, and through strategic lending partners, provides financing for their clients. To date, Mr. White and TREG has helped thousands realize their financial goals through investing in real estate.
District Manager (Via Acquisition of EGF)
First Horizon Home Loans
June 2004 – June 2007 (3 years 1 month)
First Horizon Homes Loans is a Fortune 500 Company based out of Dallas Texas owned by First Tennessee Bank. First Horizon purchased Mr. White’s former company The Equity Group Financial in June of 2004. The acquisition was a move by First Horizon to expand their banking presence to the upper Midwest after primarily serving the Southern United States for the past 150 years. Mr. White was responsible to oversee a district consisting of two offices and help aid their regional expansion initiatives. Mr. White’s employment contract successfully concluded in June of 2007.
Vice President of Sales & Marketing
The Equity Group Financial
October 1996 – May 2004 (7 years 8 months)
Mr. White was the VP and owner of The Equity Group Financial Inc (EGF). EGF's 120+ employees produced an average of $30 Million in closed loan volume each month. EGF was a licensed
Mortgage Bank in MI and OH and performed Conventional, FHA, VA and Non Conforming business for over 8 years. EGF’s closed loan volume for its last full years before being acquired was $380
Million.
A member of EGF staff since January of 1997, Mr. White became partner in January of 2000. At that time, Mr. White was able to shift his focus from originating to recruiting and company expansion.
These efforts quadrupled the sales staff, leading to an average production increase of 38% annually. As the Vice-President, Mr. White’s responsibilities included direct management of, and executive
responsibility for all phases of the Company’s business. His primary focus was coordinating operations while structuring the originations policies and procedures.
Eastern Michigan University
BS, Organizational Communications
1994
Mr. White played collegiate baseball at Eastern Michigan University from 1989 – 1992 and then professionally with the Los Angeles Dodgers from 1992 – 1993. Mr. White earned his Bachelors Degree in Organizational Communications and a Marketing Minor from Eastern Michigan University in 1994. Mr. White is a lifetime member of the National Professional Ballplayers Association and has also served as the President of the Eastern Michigan University Diamond Club since 2004. In recognition of his service as a player and board President he was honored with the EMU Baseball Distonguished Alumnus Award in 2017.